February’s unemployment dips slightly to 10.5 percent

State says the rate has stayed nearly the same for the past four months

Pamplin Media Group, Mar 16, 2010 (4 Reader comments)

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Oregon’s unemployment rate in February dropped only slightly to 10.5 percent from 10.7 percent in January.

State employment officials said Tuesday morning that the rate has been essentially the same for the past four months.

At the same time, the state lost about 1,200 jobs in February, following a gain of 1,200 jobs in January.

In February, 220,932 Oregonians were unemployed. A year ago, 232,225 Oregonians were unemployed.

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bollocks

So many workers have exhausted their benefits and fallen off the statistical radar that this figure is nonsense.

It's more like 15-20%

"bollocks"

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Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:03 PM

Re: February’s unemployment dips slightly to 10.5 percent

Socialism and welfare are not the answers to economic prosperity.

How is that "Change" thing working for you folks?

Freedom and private property rights (what is mine is mine and what is yours is yours) is what we should be striving for.

"Tiff"

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Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:52 PM

Re: February’s unemployment dips slightly to 10.5 percent

Oregon's unemployment is not going to get better for a long, long time. Now we have Idaho's governor sending "love letters" to Oregon's businesses in hopes that they will relocate to a more business friendly state: http://exitoregon.blogspot.com/2010/03/idahos-love-letter-to-oregon-and.html

"Exit Oregon"

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Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:13 PM

Re: February’s unemployment dips slightly to 10.5 percent

I've been looking into relocating to Oregon City, and for the past few weeks have been reading several papers in the area, and visiting several job sites, and I see plenty of jobs I am qualified for, yet this statistic is still startling. I'll be moving from a county in Southern CA with 22% unemployment rate (as of Monday). I'll take even 15% over that.